Are you suggesting it should be Shai Halud?
Hmm, I'm guessing you haven't read Dune then ?
Or the Australian Route Register, theCrag.com . . .
Maybe just start with Dave Jones interview here on Chockers . . .

You can then have a real belly laugh as you notice we all spell it 'wrong' . . . .

Re Niel - I'm just using the old 'i before e; except after c' rule . . .
And if you re-read the post you will notice that I only started using the 'safer' spelling once Niel's behaviour became contemptibly obvious . . .

Yeah it seems like a lot of rules don't actually apply to name Niel . . .
In the interest of SafeCliffs, thanks to those who sent me the recent topics from the SaferCliffs discussions - it was purely for personal research of course . . .
Though I may actually need to de-frock a poodle soon - so whats the current 'best practice'?
Oh and Niel, I am still waiting for a reply to my numerous requests for re-instated access . . . Even if it is another abusive one, I don't mind . .

On 25/03/2013 Macciza wrote:>Yeah it seems like a lot of rules don't actually apply to name Niel . .>.

Wikipedia:
Niel is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

Baby Names:
niel\ as a boy's name is a variant of Neil (Irish, Gaelic), and the meaning of Niel is "champion".
The baby name Niel sounds like Noel, Neel and Nial. Other similar baby names are Niels, Nigel and Nijel.
People with this name have a deep inner desire for travel and adventure, and want to set their own pace in life without being governed by tradition.

On 8/03/2013 eduardostuganglabovic wrote:>Well, whilst not really wanting to get into the politics of it all, I do>think macca has a point. Certain friends of mine have been naughty boys>on this forum from time to time, but I'm told they were shown the courtesy>of either a PM or it was posted on the forum the reason why they were being>"naughty" and being banned/time outed. They may have disagreed but at least>it was out there and in general they seem to respect the moderators for>doing a difficult job in an open fashion. >>It seems as if the same courtesy isn't being applied to Macca, and the>longer it goes on it increasingly appears that "moderator privileges" are>being used for a personal agenda which is a great shame.

+1
I have been offline for a month and am playing catch up with posts/issues...
~> It is disappointing to see this one still going. Even the infractions referred to above didn't get that much time out!*
(*Till hex eventually got banned, but even then, got the courtesy of being told why).